3 MAY 1946, Page 16

A QUESTION OF CALORIES

SIR,—I have read with interest the correspondence in The Spectaro' about feeding in Germany, and the relative amount of calories per person in this country and in Germany. May I ask how it is possible to say that the " calorie level " in the U.K. is 2,85o per day, when such items as fish, bread and potatoes are unrationed? Surely anyone who so desires can raise the calorie level by eating more of these articles, thereby making the discrepancy between our own feeding and that of the Germans even

[The 2,85o represents the average individual consumption of all kinds of food, rationed and unrationed.—Ed., The Spectator]